Abstract: M17.00001 : Tools for the Future of Nuclear Physics*

Author:

Donald Geesaman(Argonne National Laboratory)

The challenges of Nuclear Physics, especially in understanding strongly
interacting matter in all its forms in the history of the universe, place
ever higher demands on the tools of the field, including the workhorse,
accelerators. These demands are not just higher energy and higher
luminosity. To recreate the matter that fleetingly was formed in the origin
of the heavy elements, we need higher power heavy-ion accelerators and
creative techniques to harvest the isotopes. We also need high-current
low-energy accelerators deep underground to detect the very slow rate
reactions in stellar burning. To explore the three dimensional distributions
of high-momentum quarks in hadrons and to search for gluonic excitations we
need high-current CW electron accelerators. Understanding the gluonic
structure of nuclei and the three dimensional distributions of partons at
lower x, we need high-luminosity electron-ion colliders that also have the
capabilities to prepare, preserve and manipulate the polarization of both
beams. A search for the critical point in the QCD phase diagram demands high
luminosity beams over a broad range of species and energy. With advances in
cavity design and construction, beam manipulation and cooling, and ion
sources and targets, the Nuclear Physics community, in the U.S. and
internationally has a coordinated vision to deliver this exciting science.

*This work is supported by DOE, Office of Nuclear Physics, under contract DE-AC02-06CH11357

To cite this abstract, use the following reference: http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2014.APR.M17.1